Victoria University Invites you o the launch of the Report: Human Resource Management Practices in Multinational Enterprises: Survey Evidence from Australia
 
Authors: Anthony McDonnell, Helen Russell, Gitika Sablok, John Burgess, Pauline Stanton, Timothy Bartram, Brendan Boyle and Karen Manning
 
This report, based on a survey carried out on MNEs in Australia in 2010 by researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of South Australia, La Trobe University and Victoria University, is part of an international project that includes Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Spain and the UK. The survey was supported by AHRI.  Key features of the report include:
•         A Profile of Multinational Enterprises in Australia
•         Key features of their HR Function and Control
•         A snapshot of MNE’s Pay and Performance Management policies
•         A profile of MNE’s Training, Development and Talent Management practices
•         MNE’s approach to Global Staffing and Organisational Learning
•         The Employee Involvement, Communication, Representation and Consultation Practices of Multinational Enterprises
 
Report launched by Peter Wilson AM National President of the Australian Human Resources Institute and Professor Peter Dowling Professor of International HRM at La Trobe University. Chaired by Professor Pauline Stanton Victoria University.
 
When:         Wednesday 24 August 2011
Time:          4.30pm – 6.30pm  
Where:       Victoria University
                    Level 9, Rm 9.15
                    300 Flinders street, Melbourne
 
RSVP:        By Friday 19 August to Smilka.Jakobi@vu.edu.au or 99191295
 

Dr Steen Navrbjerg 
Associate Professor 
University of Copenhagen 
  
Dr Dana Minbaeva 
Associate Professor 
Copenhagen Business School 
  
Professor Pauline Stanton 
Victoria University 

Multinational companies are at the forefront of globalisation through the movement of capital, labour, technology, skills and knowledge across borders and within international supply chains. A United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Report in 2008 found that there are almost 80,000 MNCs world¬wide employing a staggering 55 million people. While MNCs operate in multiple countries their headquarters must take into account differences in local settings when seeking the means to coordinate and control subsidiaries. Questions arise about how far MNCs are able to influence host country employment relations practices and exert home country control. 
  
In this seminar Dr Steen Navrbjerg from the Employment Relations Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen will talk about his research into four MNCs operating in Denmark, suggesting that although they do not directly interfere in local industrial relations processes they use their managerial prerogative and a shift from a stakeholder to a shareholder management style to ultimately influence the relationship between employers and employees. 
Dr Dana Minbaeva from the Centre for Strategic Management and Globalization at Copenhagen Business School will focus on how knowledge sharing and exchange can be enhanced through HRM by exploring HRM practices within in three Danish MNCs. 
  
Complementing the Danish experience of MNCs, Professor Pauline Stanton from the School of Management and Information Systems will report on the progress of a major Australian survey into the Employment Practices of MNCs in Australia. This survey is part of a major international project INTREPID which is compar¬ing employment relations practices in MNCs in eleven countries. 
  
  
Date:           Wednesday, 3 November 2010 
Time:           9.00 am – 12.30 pm (Morning Tea included) 
Venue:        Victoria University, Room 9.01, Level 9, 300 Flinders St, Melbourne 
RSVP:         Smilka Jakobi on 9919 1295 or email: smilka.jakobi@vu.edu.au 
COST:         NO CHARGE 
HOST:         Victoria Graduate School of Business 
  
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